National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 299.

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this tenth day of December, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. S. COLLINGS

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Regulation 107‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Display of posters containing electoral matter prohibited.

“107.—(1.) A person shall not post up or exhibit, or permit or cause to be posted up or exhibited, any poster of any size exceeding the prescribed size.

“(2.) A poster shall be deemed to be posted up or exhibited if it is posted up or exhibited in or on any building, vehicle, vessel, hoarding or place (whether it is or is not a public place and whether on land or water or in the air).

“(3.) Nothing in this regulation shall prohibit the projection by means of any cinematograph or other similar apparatus of any electoral matter on to any screen in any theatre, hall or premises used for public entertainment.

“(4.) Every contract or agreement for the posting up or exhibition of any poster to which this regulation applies, entered into on or before the date on which this regulation comes into force, is hereby declared to be void and of no effect.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 13th December, 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 256 and also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 267, 268, 269, 275, 279, 283, 288, 289 and 290.

‡ Added by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 173.

7548.—Price 3d.

“(5.) A person shall not write, draw or depict any electoral matter directly or any roadway, footpath, building, vehicle, vessel, hoarding or place (whether it is or is not a public place and whether on land or water).

“(6.) In this regulation—

‘electoral matter’ means any matter intended or calculated to affect the result of any election or referendum held or to be held under any law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

‘poster’ means any electoral matter printed, drawn or depicted on any material whatsoever and where any electoral matter is printed, drawn or depicted in sections, includes every such section;

‘the prescribed size’ means ten inches in length and six inches in width.”.

ERRATUM.

STATUTORY RULES 1943, No. 299.

Page 2, line 2, for “or” substitute “on”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.